A Performance Study of a Novel Dynamic Real-Time Optimisation Engine Applied to an Industrial Continuous Pulping System

In this work we present a flexible real-time dynamic optimisation engine that successfully decouples the controller design and innovation space into three orthogonal axes given by the model formulation, the problem formulation and the solution methods. A simulation of an industrial continuous pulping system is used to run several performance studies with an emphasis on the effect of different model formulations in various production transition scenarios.